Unboxious
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- Comment on Really Who watch it? 8 hours ago:
I don’t understand why there are so many of these. Surely even the people who like them can’t watch that many. Also, I don’t understand why Japanese light novels are almost always so low-quality. I realize a lot of them are amateur works but you’d think there would be more than just a few that stand out as good.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #2 - Spring 2025 (Anime Corner) 1 day ago:
Crazy that Gundam GQuuuuuux, which has been great so far, didn’t make the list.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 17] 1 day ago:
This week I finally got caught up to Medalist. Wow! This one really deserves the awards it’s received. I know I’ve said this before, but even if you have no interest in figure skating this is well worth the read. At first it’s just enjoyable to watch Inori and her coach, Tsukasa, play off each other. Very soon it becomes fun to watch Inori interact with the other skaters and then eventually Tsukasa spends more time interacting with the other coaches and that was a blast too! The characters are great, the art is great, the tournaments are exciting. What more is there to ask for?
I’ve also made a bit of progress on Fullmetal Alchemist. Most people are already familiar with at least FMA: Brotherhood so I won’t say much here other than “it’s pretty good too”.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 3 discussion 2 days ago:
This really is just monkey’s paw: the anime. Nico may know exactly how that paw will curl, but that sure doesn’t give her the wisdom to care!
- Comment on Kowloon Generic Romance - Episode 3 discussion 3 days ago:
That sure was a way to start an episode of anime.
- Comment on 10 Best Anime About Cooking & Food 3 days ago:
My guess is it’s because the doofus who wrote the article didn’t do basic research.
- Comment on 10 Best Anime About Cooking & Food 3 days ago:
It’s frankly embarrassing that Yakitate!! Japan isn’t on the list.
- Comment on Selfhosted podcast has announced that episode 150 is their last. 4 days ago:
Yeah I dropped that one entirely.
- Comment on Selfhosted podcast has announced that episode 150 is their last. 4 days ago:
Eh. I haven’t listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.
- Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX • Kidou Senshi Gundam GQuuuuuuX - Episode 2 discussion 6 days ago:
Yeah, a lot of the music, sound effects, and some visuals like the ones you posted were pretty nostalgic. Was weird hearing and seeing them alongside modern high-budget animation.
- Comment on "Girls Band Cry : The Movie Compilation" Key Visual 6 days ago:
I just watched the first episode of the TV show yesterday and it was pretty good! I’ll probably just keep watching the TV show, but maybe when this movie comes out I can watch it with my wife.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 16] 1 week ago:
- Kowloon Generic Romance - Both episodes I’ve watched have left me saying “that was weird af”, but in a good way. The pacing is less good. I think I might pick up the manga it’s based off of.
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux - A solid first episode. Lots of parallels to the start of Zeta Gundam. I’m excited to see where it goes next.
- Witch Watch - A cute series. Wish it were animated a bit better.
- Yakitate!! Japan - My god. This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I’m only three episodes in but it’s just so dang charming. Want to watch a kid with with the superpower of slightly warmer than average hands create the greatest breads known to man? Want to watch him do it surrounded by a bunch of other crazy characters? This is your show.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 2 discussion 1 week ago:
Fun stuff. The animation is only serviceable, but it at least does a good job of adapting the manga’s jokes.
- Comment on I like both (You should read Gantz BTW) 1 week ago:
Thinking of my favorite seinen it comes out to Medalist, Skip and Loafer, Witch Hat Atelier, the One-Punch Man webcomic, and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. I definitely land more on one side than the other here, though I’ll definitely give Vinland Saga a try someday since I’ve only heard great things about that.
- Comment on I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! • Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu! - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t even able to watch the whole first episode. Every time the main character opened his mouth I got the urge to do something else.
- Comment on Kowloon Generic Romance - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
That was a weird first episode. I’m down for episode 2.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 1 discussion 2 weeks ago:
The manga was probably serious 10% of the time, gags 90% of the time. If that doesn’t appeal to you I don’t think this story is good enough that there’s any reason to stick it out.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 15] 2 weeks ago:
Picked up two shows this week:
- Witch Watch - It’s fun and cute. Not the greatest thing in the world, but I enjoy a good gag anime every now and again. I think it suffers from the episodic pacing of the manga though; it felt weird when it jumped to a completely different story halfway through the episode. The OP is beautiful btw. Watch it once even if you don’t watch this show.
- Yakitate Japan I sat down to watch Kowloon Generic Romance with my wife yesterday and then we watched this instead. It was pretty funny. Main character wants to be a baker. Luckily he has the cheat skill of “slightly warmer than average hands”. A fun show from 2004 that feels like a show from 2004. After we watched an episode my wife made 3 loaves of bread. Good stuff. We’ll definitely watch more of it.
We’ll probably be giving Kowloon Generic Romance another go, as well as Gundam GQuuuuuux, and of course we’re still watching Apothecary Diaries.
- Comment on It. Is. DONE! 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, the poseability of these kits is incredible. Some people have a lot of fun with it.
- Comment on In your opinion, which anime has the most badass villains? 2 weeks ago:
All of Roboworld leadership from Redline definitely qualified as badass. Most everything else in Redline too tbh.
- Comment on Anime April Fools' Day Thread 3 weeks ago:
I have no idea. I just saw it and noticed the thread for submissions was still going so I drew something up in 5 minutes with my mouse.
- Comment on Anime April Fools' Day Thread 3 weeks ago:
I’m proud to have contributed the one for the Medalist manga!
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 weeks ago:
Re:Zero S3 - Watched intro “movie” episode. It’s decent, but I’d forgotten so much context that it was hard to care too much.
I hear ya. I watched about 5 minutes of this and noped out until I have time to rewatch the rest of the series first. I’ll probably wait 'til Season 4.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 3 weeks ago:
Things I watched this season, in no particular order:
- Apothecary Diaries Season 2 - So far it’s been just as good as season 1; I find myself looking forward to every new episode. Glad to see it continuing into the spring.
- Kill la Kill - I’m 8 episodes in and while some of the “jokes” go too far for my taste I can see why a lot of people got hyped about this show.
- From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! - I watched the first episode. It was fun, but it didn’t hook me.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2 - As with Season 1 this was a near-perfect adaptation of a really fun manga. I really hope this gets a third season because my favorite character hasn’t even been introduced yet. It’s certainly popular enough, but managing the voice actors is going to get impractical at some point.
- Medalist - This was the surprise anime of the season for me. Anyways, rehashing what I’ve said on it in other threads: at the start of the show I was really worried about the CGI skating from a studio that isn’t known for amazing CGI, but in the end it ended up working really well! Maybe it helps that they usually only had to make the skaters look good in isolation; during tournaments they’re skating around the middle of a big, otherwise-empty rink after all. The way Inori and her coach Tsukasa play off each other is incredibly charming, and the anime staff did a great job of capturing the facial expressions from the manga. It’s also amazing how a sports anime can feel like it has more dramatic stakes than something action-based. Maybe it’s the very real chance of failure. Maybe it’s just because it feels more grounded and realistic. Either way, nothing sucks me into the next episode like one of the characters getting ready to do a difficult jump in a tournament and everyone is watching to see what they’ll do and speculating whether they can actually do it and then the “next episode” button appears and I just can’t resist pushing it. Looking forward to the recently-announced Season 2.
- Blue Box - This is probably the first time I’ve thought an anime was too beautiful. The manga had a more grounded look to it, whereas in the anime everything is lit up with specular highlights everywhere. It can feel a little over-the-top. Still, that’s my only complaint (and it’s one that very few people seem to share with me). Overall it was a great adaptation of one of my favorite romance manga (and my favorite shounen romance manga). The first season in isolation is a little sad, but I anticipate that the recently-announced second season will get us far enough to make things cheerful again.
- Terror in Resonance - I know a lot of people really liked this one, but I didn’t care for it. It’s unclear to me why “terrorism” was the only answer for the main characters (and especially for one in particular). That whole chess airport sequence was just plain dumb.
- Akiba Maid War - Everything everyone said about this anime was true. Great stuff. If you want a cute yakuza drama comedy look no further.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 14] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve spent the last few weeks slowly reading through Medalist. It’s surprisingly dense; when they adapted it into an anime they only covered one chapter per episode and that felt about right. They’re long chapters but even so I don’t think that’s normal. Anyways, this is one you read for the character writing. The way Inori and her coach Tsukasa play off each other is incredibly charming, and the artist does a great job on facial expressions. It’s also amazing how a sports manga can feel like it has more dramatic stakes than something action-based. Maybe it’s the very real chance of failure. Maybe it’s just because it feels more grounded and realistic. Either way, nothing sucks me into the next chapter like one of the characters getting ready to do a difficult jump in a tournament and everyone is watching to see what they’ll do and speculating whether they can actually do it and then the “next chapter” button appears and I just can’t resist pushing it.
- Comment on ani.social's top 10 anime 3 weeks ago:
Weird to see Death Note that high up. I rewatched it a while ago and I don’t think it holds up that well. The memes are great though.
I’m also surprised to see Frieren that high up. I loved the first cour, but the second cour was merely “good” imo. It felt a lot more like a generic action shounen thing. It’s also something that’s only had a small fraction of its story animated so far.
Apart from that, well, it’s clear that I need to take the time to watch 86.
- Comment on Medalist - Episode 13 discussion 3 weeks ago:
At the start of the show I was really worried about the CGI skating from a studio that isn’t known for amazing CGI, but in the end it ended up working really well! Maybe it helps that they usually only had to make the skaters look good in isolation; they’re usually skating around the middle of a big rink after all.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 12 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I can see why my wife was excited for this episode. Jinshi sure made some faces! Poor guy got shut down twice. Sounded like he wanted to propose or something crazy at the end there too.
- Comment on What is your best supernatural anime? 3 weeks ago:
I think the show was already canceled in Japan, but the money for the dub was already spent
Not quite. It was actually successful in Japan but the company that localized it for a NA release was convinced that it would never be successful there without serious modifications. It actually got a much more normal English dub for its release in Singapore.
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard to pick a top 10. The top 5 on this list are pretty firmly my favorites but after that there are any number of great shows that could’ve filled the latter 5 slots.
- Redline - This movie showed me that an anime doesn’t need a complex plot to be awesome.
- LOOK BACK - Really emotional story about two artists.
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War - So far this is a perfect adaptation of my favorite romance manga, and my favorite comedy manga. I didn’t want to use the term “romcom” simply because I want to emphasize that it excels on both points individually. Here’s hoping they continue on to finish the second half of the story.
- Gurren Lagann - Much like Redline, this show is just awesome.
- Skip and Loafer - Extremely charming story about a girl from the countryside getting accustomed to Tokyo life. Season 2 airs later this year so it’s a good time to catch up if you haven’t seen it!
- Bang Brave Bang Bravern! - Big gay robots.
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Space opera. The worse modern US politics has gotten the more depressing this show has been to watch.
- Gundam Build Fighters - The most charming Gundam show. Unfortunately some of the jokes and references won’t land unless you’ve watched an ungodly amount of not-quite-as-good older Gundam shows.
- Eureka Seven - An excellent mech anime held back a little by a slow first several episodes.
- Mob Psycho 100 - A story about a boy trying to grow up into the best version of himself he can manage.
